i think stew moving to IGL is a step in the right direction but i would imagine that considering he's only been at the role for a few matches, liquid aren't gonna immediately be back to their form. for right now i would honestly favor mibr. 3-6 months from now? maybe different

Unless he jumps ship for Valorant. The NA scene is pretty dead right now, especially with it all being online, there are a lot more opportunities in Valorant and they need to pay the bills somehow. It's the much more reasonable decision.

If Fallen, and Fer kicked TACO, KNG, and trk, and got some international T1 players then they could probably be a T1 team maybe even a team contending for trophies depending on how good they actually do against top teams. But they seem to want to stick to brazil. Both Fallen and Fer speak fluent english. Taco also speaks fluent english if they wanted to keep him as well but I don't think they should.

Fallen said on the post game interview that despite him still being the only one IGL, the other players(besides fer) are contributing a lot with pre-game tactics.
They are definitely changing some of their tactics and are more organized.

I applaud MiBR for even winning some matches considering they play 4v5 and with a handicap.

Holy shit Taco is so fucking bad, and how the fuck is he left on late round situations, if you are that bad go first at least, he is last in MiBR in entries all the time, least entries in the past 3 months, he had 0 entries on Mirage, died 3 times and got the first kill 0 times

Fer was basically smurfing out there, Fallen playing well, KNG as well, those 3 are performing and look good consistently

On default T rounds he's usually on the other side of the map trying to control early CT aggression (Think of D2 Tunnels, Mirage Palace/Ramp, Train Brown Halls, Overpass Monster etc.). He won't be engaging in early fights nearly as often as his teammates.

If the team goes for something fast-paced right of οff the bat, he'll usually go first and when the team is ready to attack after a Default he'll also usually go in first, but he won't be engaging in early fights, which is how HLTV calculates entries.

Right now he's closer to a lurker than he is a pure entry fragger, at least at the start of the rounds.

Just look at how MIBR took early-round control on D2 just now, it was trk/fer going in first either Long or Short with Taco chilling in Tunnels until the actual execution took place.

And that's a problem right? He was always known for his entry fragging.
Like, even in the worst rating periods, people (me included) would defend his impact with the entries. But now, if he's not entry fragging and his ratings are not up, what is he good for?

CS has steered away from execution-heavy gameplans where a clear entry-fragger is present

In MIBR's default rounds Taco is usually as far away from the early action as possible. On D2, for example, he just holds Tunnels until the team is ready to attack. On Overpass he's at Monster, on Train he holds upper B, on Mirage he stays Palace/Ramp etc. Again, if you think that's wrong, then you should be complaining about Fallen, not Taco

You can blame Taco about a bunch of other things, but talking about his entry-ability seems kind of silly when he's usually not attempting it unless the team is trying something very fast-paced.

That's not what I said. What I said is that if you think Taco's not fragging enough early into the rounds, then that's because that's not his role and that that's an unfair criticism. His current role is assigned by Fallen, so he would be to blame for that.

I don't disagree that even in the role that he has now he is sub-par more often than not.

Fallen, fer and kng have been playing really solid for a while now. Fallen is hitting some insane shots, and fer is putting up big numbers. It's so enjoyable to watch, definitely getting some 2017 vibes, even if it's "only" against Chaos